Daily Preserves: Martha's Homemade Pickles

All our homemade pickle research has led to a bewildering range of choices, variety, and tastes. Peppers? Cucumbers? Beets? What to pickle?

So this homemade pickle overview from Martha Stewart was welcome - a summary of the basic spices and ingredients that go into most homemade pickles. It gave us some perspective and we're thinking about the spices we want to use in our own pickles.

Faith is executive editor of The Kitchn and author of three cookbooks, including the James Beard Award-winning The Kitchn Cookbook, coauthored with Sara Kate Gillingham, as well as Bakeless Sweets. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband Mike.